Thematic Bible: Martyrs


Thematic Bible



Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.


So they conspired against him and at the command of the king they stoned him to death in the court of the house of the Lord.


from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the house of God; yes, I tell you, it shall be charged against this generation.’


In vain I have struck your sons;
They accepted no chastening.
Your sword has devoured your prophets
Like a destroying lion.


for they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink. They deserve it.”

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not have it!

They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tempted, they were put to death with the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out. They are not pleasing to God, but hostile to all men,

And he sent another, and that one they killed; and so with many others, beating some and killing others.